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- Staff / Crew
Responsibilities:
- Supervise reporters to ensure content is completed on deadline
- Ensure accuracy, quality and brand positioning within the content
- Write and edit content, as necessary, for delivery of daily programs for on-air and online platforms
- Coordinate graphics, supporting visuals and video elements into final product
- Research and fact-check news stories for credibility
- Determine final content lineup of assigned programs based on target audience and brand promise
- May perform other television technical roles for live or taped content as necessary
- May help prepare content for digital news products and social media
Qualifications:
- 2+ years’ experience in video production or line-editing.
- Journalism/reporting/production experience.
- News experience preferred.
- Solid news judgement.
- Understands where to focus energy and how to produce stories under pressure/deadlines.
- Able to handle last minute changes.
- Communicates clearly and effectively.
- Computer assisted reporting experience.
- Understanding of the FOIA request process.
- Able to manage personnel issues with complete confidence and professionalism.
- Well-read and knowledgeable in current events and news.
TDS Telecom
PR, Social and Influencer Executive
Better Placed are delighted to be partnering with a large scale entertainment business in their search for a PR, Social and Influencer executive to work across their portfolio of brands.
They are looking for an innovative and dynamic individual to join their North West based team. This role will report directly to the Head of PR and Content and will support in the management of all aspects of PR, with a solid grounding in social channels, with a focus on TikTok and influencer marketing
This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to join a truly dynamic team in the next stage of their journey in entertainment, music and the arts.
The role
- Manage on and offline PR campaigns with new and existing press relations
- Create press releases / communications and manage media relations
- Copywriting and proofreading for external comms (email, web, social, PR etc)
- Identify, create and manage influencer campaigns that feed into the overall business social media strategy
- Keep on top of new social media developments, trends and platforms – Identifying social media influencers, YouTubers and TikTokers, for potential collaborations.
- Liaise with the wider marketing team to ensure all campaigns are fully integrated
- Devise and create TikTok content plans
- Report on successes across PR, social and content.
The person
- Previous experience in PR/Social/Content roles
- A love for all things entertainment – music, arts, events etc
- A self-learner who loves to bring new ideas to the table and keeps up to date with industry trends
- A creative mind who thrives working with designers, photographers and videographers
- Able to multi-task – this will be a fast-paced role!
- A keen eye for detail who enjoys writing copy across multiple platforms
- A real interest in being part of and building online communities
For more information on the role, team and client please apply immediately.
Better Placed Ltd
About Hyve
We believe that when people come together, powerful things happen. Hyve Group plc connects global industry communities through unmissable events, online networking platforms, and hyper-productive meeting programmes.
Our decades of experience put us at the heart of industries, and we are committed to using our influence to shape innovation and drive progress across our customer communities.
Our market-leading portfolio of global brands includes Shoptalk, Spring Fair, Africa Oil Week, Bett, Mining Indaba, and Retail Meetup.
#LifeAtHyve
At Hyve, we are driven by our values: brilliant work, fresh thinking, rich connections, and collective buzz. In practice, this means we value quality, work with passion, celebrate uniqueness, and are our best when we work together.
We value a diverse team and are committed to employing individuals from all backgrounds and creating a culture based around belonging.
Our hybrid working model ensures we respect our peoples’ work/life balance.
Human connections are our specialty, and we offer a jam-packed calendar of social events, inclusion workshops, and professional development opportunities to make sure #LifeAtHyve is always fulfilling and exciting.
About Bett
Bett is a dynamic and engaged online and live community that learns, trades and networks all year round. It is the world’s largest education technology event series and is the global meeting place for the education technology industry. With over 35 years of heritage, Bett provides a platform for innovation, dialogue, networking and global trade – bringing together exhibitors and visitors from around the world, physically and online, to buy, sell and make connections. The Bett global series is comprised of four physical events, in four continents, and an extensive suite of online activities that span the year and the globe. Globally, we welcome over 60,000 educators to our events and over 1200 technology providers.
Ahead is a new event for higher education leaders accelerating disruption. Co-located with Bett – the global community for education technology, Ahead offers the higher education
About you
As a Content Producer for the EdTech portfolio, you will be joining a Content team of four and will be responsible for the programming and onsite delivery of up to three content features for our flagship show Bett UK.
This will include programming across one of our most recent and most exciting launch features: Esports @ Bett. You will also support on the portfolio’s 365 content-marketing campaign and pre-show speaker logistics.
Key Responsibilities
- Responsibility for the day-to-day management of content across your allocated features.
- Content generation: responsible for conducting a research campaign and analysis of key subject areas and trends.
- Accountable for editorial speaker recruitment across allocated features. Bett is committed to producing an inclusive and representative content agenda for our visitors, and your programmes and speaker recruitment should support and reflect this.
- Content development: evolution of themes, topics and formats designed to deliver new audience segments to Bett.
- Collaboration with the Sales team to maximize revenue from each content feature whilst ensuring that the quality of the content is delivered to the highest standard.
- Collaboration with the Marketing team to deliver buyer side visitors by leveraging strong speaker line ups with associated content marketing which may include video, written and social media-based campaigns.
- Supporting Bett’s 365 Digital Content Campaign: Working with other content team members to commission new pieces of editorial content for newsletters, Bett’s community hub, and social media.
- Project management: working with the show project teams including marketing, sales and operations to deliver to deadline and within budget
- Onsite delivery: managing onsite execution of content features to exceptional standards of customer service.
- Speaker logistics support: Including, but not limited to, sending out speaker instructions, collecting speaker assets, updating speaker profiles and agendas on the Bett website.
- ESG Initiatives: Supporting the team with the generation and development of new ESG content initiatives to ensure Bett is driving awareness into sustainability.
Skills Required
- Established experience of conference production.
- Experience within the technology or education sectors beneficial, but not required
- Excellent communication and presentation skills – able to clearly and succinctly convey information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message.
- A high level of commercial awareness and be target and deadline driven.
- Strongly results-focused, able to clearly demonstrate success via proven metrics.
- Customer-oriented, taking pride in exceeding customer expectations.
- Proven relationship skills – able to build and develop good working relationships across the business to facilitate the accomplishment of goals, leverage learning and share best practice.
Hyve Group plc
Our client is a full-service agency specialising in the entertainment /music industries. They work with with a wide range of clients from music labels, artists, to promoters. They have an exciting opportunity for a social content producer to join the team.
The role
We’re looking for a creative and social media savvy digital content producer, to help us produce our agency’s social and wider creative content output, which includes (but is not limited to) TikTok content, performance videos, lyric videos, photo shoots, music videos, music packshots, social-driven branding projects and bite-sized multimedia social content.
We’re looking for someone with 3+ years of relevant experience as a producer in social & entertainment. You will have a brilliant creative eye, are experienced at project managing a range of creative projects inside social and/or digital content, and understand the intricacies of the music industry & social media.
You’ll be responsible for coordinating the logistics of every aspect of our content ‘shoots’ and other multidisciplinary content. Including aiding the creation of treatments, budget, timeline, insurance, health & safety, freelancers and call sheets. You’ll need to be really comfortable managing lots of different contributors, whether that’s the artists themselves and their management team, brand representatives, or freelancers assisting with things like photography, videography, hair, make-up… the list goes on.
We would love you to come armed with your own little black book of industry contacts and freelancers too!
The role provides a huge opportunity to help build & shape the future of our agency and how we service our clients. We’re at a stage in our growth where we’re winning new business all the time so we need talented people to help us execute and impress our clients.
Your responsibilities:
- Project management & production of the agency’s content output (this includes weekly and ad-hoc social content, as well as larger creative studio jobs).
- Organising job logistics from pre-production to post-production (this includes being on-site for shoots).
- Managing project budgets, keeping jobs on track financially & working with our finance team to keep track of invoicing.
- Sourcing of freelancers for specific jobs & building your own freelance network in various creative disciplines.
- Working with the leadership team including our Co-Founders & Creative Director to build the agency’s studio product from the ground up.
- Work with our Co-Founders to bring in new studio projects & help scale the revenue of this side of the business.
Who are you?
To really flourish in this role, we would expect you to:
- Be passionate about music, ideally having worked in the music industry, with experience producing creative and digital content for social.
- Love working with talented creatives to make content that looks great, and that audiences really connect with.
- Have an in-depth knowledge of platforms, formats, deliverables and how these impact time-frames & budgets.
- Be a native user of Instagram & TikTok, with an interest in keeping up to date with a fast moving social media landscape.
- Be meticulously organised and process driven, thriving in a fast paced work environment and able to multitask across a variety of projects (whilst staying cool under pressure too of course!).
- Have a great creative eye, with the ability to think critically about creative executions and suggest best practice approaches.
- Experienced working as a creative, or closely with, so that you understand creative processes and are able to assess workload, estimate timings and manage resources accordingly.
- Have excellent project management skills.
- First-class written & verbal communication skills.
- Be well connected with a range of go-to creatives and freelancers you already work with to deliver content
- Be happy working as part of a small but growing team.
- Feel motivated to help drive the success and growth of the company by asserting your ideas both creatively & operationally.
So, what’s in it for you?
We nurture every single one of our employees, meaning this is a place for you to learn, develop and really mould your career within the music industry. You’ll be part of a driven and creative team and, because we’re currently going through a really exciting period of growth, you’ll be given the opportunity to help us define the company as we get bigger and better.
Please send your CV stating your salary expectations.
Creative Recruitment Limited – Creative, Digital & Marketing Talent Award Winning London based
Influencer Marketing Strategist Intern
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Contract: Internship
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Job title: Influencer Marketing Intern
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Length: 6 months
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Location: USA – Offices in NY, LA, or remote available
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When: ASAP
About Upfluence
Upfluence helps brands tell their story with powerful influencer & content marketing technology. Upfluence’s software allows brands and agencies to identify and contact millions of social influencers and bloggers at scale to execute comprehensive influencer marketing campaigns, as well as provide detailed reporting metrics. Since the launch of our SaaS software in January 2017, the company has yielded a monthly double-digit growth rate, and we are therefore seeking further expansion for our team and offices. Our rapidly growing global team is currently distributed between our offices in NYC, Los Angeles, Switzerland, and Lyon.
We are open to applicants anywhere in the U.S as we are able to fully support remote work. However, we are headquartered in New York and have an office location offering a hybrid model as well.
About The Internship Program
During your internship at Upfluence, you’ll be immersed within the Digital Entertainment Industry. You will work with your team to provide support to our clients to launch their first Influencer Marketing Campaigns. You will have hands-on experience understanding their needs and come up with creative ideas to launch a successful partnership with their creators in various industries, both B2C and B2B.
You will gain insight into the entire Influencer Partnership processes onboarding with the brand, strategy design according to the client’s objectives, creator brief creation, come up with creator’s email communication templates, and a bespoke set up of each of your client’s Upfluence Software account. You’ll also collaboratively shape what success looks like for the changes you propose. The projects you could work on may be team level or span our entire tech organization.
You’ll be challenged and mentored by our experienced team of influencer marketing strategists in turn to develop the skills it takes to strategize, target, and run highly visible digital influencer campaigns. We’re excited to welcome a new intern for the Spring-Summer 2022 Intern Program, send us your outstanding resume and answer our pre-screening questions.
Responsibilities
Project Management (80%)
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Project management with various clients: understanding their needs, creating project strategies and documents to successfully launch their Influencer Marketing partnerships (campaign briefs, email templates…)
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Follow closely the start and the progress of your client’s influencer marketing projects,
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Conduct analyses, monitor progress, & provide insights and weekly reports on completed projects
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Provide editorial oversight and share new information from the influencer industry and digital media space to clients,
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Participate in strategic thinking in planning influencer marketing campaigns and brand integrations in partnership with Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Twitter Influencers, and Twitch Streamers.
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Find creative solutions for brands in various industries in collaboration with the operational team
Customer Success (20%)
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Collaborate closely with the Customer Success Managers to ensure the delivery of the best client’s experience,
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Stay up to date with our internal Software improvements and new technical features,
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Integrate new Software features into strategic campaigns,
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Become an extension of various clients’ teams: understand each brand’s campaign goals & mission,
Who we are looking for
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You have relevant influencer marketing experience and/or are working towards an Undergraduate or Master’s level degree in a university,
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You have experience in the digital industry and/or project management,
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You know the ins and outs of social media platforms and are always aware of the latest trends,
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You are positive and resilient: you believe that mistakes and failures are learning opportunities and you value feedback as you are always looking to grow,
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Experience working at an agency or for brands where you help with social media and/or influencers is a true plus,
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Mastery of G Suite web tools, social amplification, analytics would be appreciated,
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Curious, you like to take on challenges and find solutions; You have good listening and communication skills; Motivated and sociable, you like teamwork and customer relations.
What we can offer you
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Paid internship
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College credits
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A diverse and international team
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An entrepreneurial environment with room for growth
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New York City Office or Eastern time based remote employment available
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Future opportunity to be a part of a growing team and company
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Join a motivated and growing team!
Upfluence is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
We offer a flexible hybrid work model, providing our employees with an office setting, the option to work from home, and even fully remote structures. We believe in work-life balance and provide access so we can make the best of our workdays.
Upfluence
Do you consider yourself highly organized and goal orientated? Are you able to maintain a fast paced environment, work closely your team and manage expectations of the biggest entertainment brands in the world?
If so… Floor 84 Studio is looking for a Los Angeles-based Associate Producer. This role works directly with clients and the internal development teams to produce games & interactive experiences for the entertainment industry’s leading companies. The ideal candidate is a self-motivated individual with experience across a broad range of development platforms and frameworks. This person is a team player and passionate about bringing cutting-edge games and interactive experiences to the masses.
Responsibilities
- Manage project deliverables against allotted production parameters and deadlinesÂ
- Collaborate with studio designers, artists, and gameplay engineers to execute polished gameplay experiences
- Plan project goals and deliverables, ensuring the development studio is unblocked and prepared for success
- Work with Lead Producers to identify project level of effort and upcoming deliverable dates
- Track project progress against schedule/scope requirements through project management systems (JIRA, etc)
- Drive regular client-facing meetings and delegate client feedback to appropriate internal teams
- Facilitate client and cross-team communications across multiple mediums such as JIRA, Slack, Email, etc.
- Formulate & iterate on process methods over time
- Host regular meetings to keep teams informed on status & next steps
Qualifications
- 2+ years of work experience as a coordinator/associate producer in game development or interactive entertainmentÂ
- Experience working in project management software such as JIRA, Teams, Confluence, etc.Â
- Strong passion for gaming and interactive entertainmentÂ
- Self-motivated individual who is detail-orientedÂ
- Excellent interpersonal skillsÂ
- Proactive ability to work independently and efficientlyÂ
- Ability to multitask/work on several intensive tasks at onceÂ
- Understanding of game development processes and pipelines
Floor 84 Studio
Who we are: Spectrum Networks is a series of 27 hyper-local news and 9 regional sports networks owned and operated by Charter Communications, Inc. Spectrum Networks seeks to provide the most essential local news and information, cultivating relevant and thoughtful conversations that foster informed and engaged communities.
The Environment: Spectrum News is a 24-hour breaking news network which requires employees who are flexible and available to work various shift, including early morning, late evenings,
weekends and holidays.
Being on our team means … You’re ready to inspire and be inspired! You’re passionate, creative and highly technical, driven to flourish in a competitive, fast-paced environment. You’re fiercely accurate, with a desire to leverage your knowledge, skills and abilities to share news stories to viewers in our local communities. You’re nimble, having the ability to pivot in an ever-changing workflow. You are a team player with a positive attitude and strong interpersonal skills. You have the ability to multi-task, meet tight deadlines and remain calm under pressure.
What we’re looking for: The Associate Producer will research and write news scripts for assigned shows and newscasts. Contribute to special features and stories. Participate in coordinating coverage of major stories, breaking news and specials.
MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Write news stories for an assigned show and/or newscast, ensuring content is factually correct and written in a clear and concise conversational style
- Verify stories are written to the pictures being edited and/or vice versa
- Follow through on all assignments meeting required deadlines, including contributing to story ideas and development
- Fill-in producing shows and newscasts as needed
- Conduct pre-interviews and on-camera interviews
- Participate in shooting, scripting and editing, as directed
- Perform editing functions as needed
- Work in a computerized newsroom environment
- Perform other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
Skills/Abilities and Knowledge
- Ability to read, write, speak and understand English
- Strong broadcast news writing ability
- Ability to anticipate situations and meet strict deadlines
- Interpersonal skills and excellent collaboration skills
- Ability to work effectively within a team environment and interact with all personnel within the organization
- Knowledge of current events and industry trends
- Attention to detail
- Familiarity with the local market
- Knowledge of social media platforms
- Must be able to work rapidly and accurately
- Working knowledge of general office computer software, newsroom software and basic non-linear editing systems a plus
- Basic editing skills
- Must be able and willing to work different shifts and be flexible with schedule changes
Education & Experience:
- High School diploma required; Bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Journalism or related field or comparable television work experience preferred
- 2+ years of Television news experience
Our Culture: Every employee is an influencer and culture keeper. We expect respectful communication (despite pressure), openness to feedback, an eagerness to learn, and an overall positive attitude! Roles may require the following:
- Overtime may be required to meet deadlines
- Varying schedule due to, breaking news and/or daily news coverage requirements
- Provide 24×7, 365 days per year, on-call support. May entail phone or physical presence at the facility for equipment failure or other disasters. This includes, but is not limited to equipment and power failures, loss of contracted services, storms or severe weather, and schedule conflicts
NPR105 306826 306826BR
SPECTRUM
You will work with teams across the Digital Experiences team, including Project Management, Creative, Franchise, Quality Assurance and Marketing to ensure that new products deliver on-time, on-budget, are scalable, and delight and inspire Disney fans and consumers.
Responsibilities :
- Ideation: Partner with producer, product management, creative, and technical teams to ideate, and develop existing and new digital experiences aligned with business strategy and delivered to class-leading partners. Participate in brainstorms to bring the best Disney experiences to the latest and most popular digital platforms and devices.
- Execute: Collaborate with internal production, product management, and creative teams, and external vendors to deliver content-based experiences working closely with Franchise stakeholders to ensure consistency in storytelling. Closely manage development details, guiding product development through multiple business stakeholder checkpoints from ideation to delivery. Consistently deliver and communicate to key partners notifying them of each step in the process.
- Document: Prepare, distribute, and archive project plans and details and meeting notes. Ensure project documentation remains up-to-date ensuring that the latest additions are accurate, and trusted. Help document and archive all digital assets.
- Content and Research: Keep up-to-date on Disney slate of upcoming theatrical and corporate priorities, as well as the digital experiences market. Work with producers to propose additions to new and existing interactive content programs by highlighting Disney priorities combined with themes of seasonality, holidays, and trends.
- Quality: Manage processes for franchise feedback, triage, and prioritization to maintain high-quality products. Work with Quality Assurance and external development teams to test experiences and maintain bug base.
- Communication: Help build stakeholder relationships and communicate clearly as it relates to requirements, scope, budget estimates, and product delivery. Can present product updates, and project plans to company partners, and external partners.
Basic Qualifications :
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- 3 years experience producing interactive digital experiences and products
- Excellent communication skills, especially in partner discussions and email communication
- Experience collaborating with producers, product managers, designers, and audio teams on developing creative concepts
- Experience collaborating with engineers on technical requirements and product design
- Experience working with Quality Assurance teams, and comfortable performing numerous rounds of checking on products to ensure accuracy and stability
- Ability to easily flex in, or flex out of projects large and small
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience creating interactive digital experiences for the kids and family space
- Experience creating audio-only experiences
- Experience with database tools, Google Docs, MS Office, Slack, JIRA, Keynote, Photoshop, video editing tools, audio tools
- Early adopter of new tech with a knowledge of current trends in interactive digital experiences
Additional Information :
Benefits and Perks: Disney offers a rewards package to help you live your best life. This includes health and savings benefits, educational opportunities and special extras that only Disney can provide. Learn more about our benefits and perks at https://jobs.disneycareers.com/benefits
#CPGPJobs #DPEP_Media
Disney Parks,Parks, Experiences and Products
Company Description
With a team of more than 500 creative, passionate and innovative talents, Ubisoft Quebec continues to grow and expand. Founded in 2005, the Quebec City studio has carved out a place for itself among the leaders in the video game industry. Involved in several of Ubisoft’s flagship franchises, it has acquired solid expertise, positioning it in the development of major AAA games. Involved in the Assassin’s Creed franchise since 2010, the Quebec City team has assumed leadership of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Immortals Fenyx Rising as well as the new crossover stories of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and Valhalla.
Job Description
As an Associate Producer at Ubi Quebec, you’ll drive the development of a specific part of a game. Depending on the project’s larger production strategy and organizational structure, your part could be a component like animation, level design, gameplay, world, or a combination of a few.
All in all, you’ll guide one or many multidisciplinary teams to bring your assigned portion to life from start to end. You’ll pair well-designed work processes with clear expectations for your team members to do their best work and optimize their talents.
Through careful planning, follow-through, and oversight, you’ll keep development on pace, ensuring that time is spent on the right things, and pivot when need be. You will be keen to ensure that everything that goes into the game brings value and you will challenge your teams to get there.
While pushing production capacity and quality, you’ll see to it that your team is ready and able to deliver their chunk of the game on time and in a supportive environment.
What You’ll Do
- Partner with the core team to understand the overall game vision and requirements + communicate them across the production floor;
- Establish the scope of your area of focus: create its long-term roadmap and schedule, establish its deliverables, quality targets, and key milestones, and define its development strategies and budgets;
- Put everything in place to pave the way for production: develop workflows and pipelines + implement means to facilitate interaction between colleagues;
- Set clear goals for your team members to achieve + make sure the process of delivering those goals is as smooth as possible;
- Anticipate risks & put plans of action in place to overcome them;
- Meet with your team to clarify milestones, prioritize deliverables, give updates, address concerns, provide direction, gather feedback, etc.;
- Sync up with the producer, production director, and production managers on progress and momentum + follow up on budgets;
- Look for opportunities to improve and evolve our processes, methods, and practices;
- Help create a healthy, inclusive and positive work environment and escalate issues that could affect employees or the project as needed;
- Take part in recruitment to build your team + foster their professional growth and career progression.
What You Bring
Qualifications
- Experience in production or project management in the video game industry (or other relevant experience);
- Plenty of flexibility to adapt to a range of situations & navigate interdependencies;
- A degree in Project Management or Business Administration (or related training);
- Familiarity with a variety of project management methodologies;
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills;
- An attentive, collaborative, and innovative spirit;
- A people-oriented approach: sure, you care about results, but you never lose sight of the dedicated people behind them.
What To Send Our Way
Additional Information
- Your resume highlighting your background, skills, and any games shipped.
Working at Ubisoft means
- Have access to benefits that make a real difference in your day-to-day life :
- A hybrid and flexible work mode, 6 weeks of vacation in your first year, an enriched parental leave, a Ubi gym directly in our offices, a complete group insurance program, access to complete Dialogue telemedicine services, an RRSP with a contribution from Ubisoft, an advantageous bonus program, concrete measures to ensure the right to disconnect, the option of working part-time and much more. Click here for all the details.
- Joining a team of 21,000 Ubisoft employees working across more than 40 locations around the world, are boundby a common mission to enrich players’ lives with original and memorable gaming experiences. Their dedication and talent have brought to life many acclaimed franchises such as Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, Watch Dogs, Just Dance, Rainbow Six, and many more to come;
- Working for an equal opportunity employer who believes that diversity of backgrounds and perspectives is essential to creating worlds where gamers and their teams can thrive and express themselves. It’s about taking on exciting challenges, being at the forefront of cutting-edge technology and being part of the future of entertainment.
Ubisoft Québec
Who we are: Spectrum Networks is a series of 27 hyper-local news and 9 regional sports networks owned and operated by Charter Communications, Inc. Spectrum Networks seeks to provide the most essential local news and information, cultivating relevant and thoughtful conversations that foster informed and engaged communities.
The Environment: Spectrum News is a 24-hour breaking news network which requires employees who are flexible and available to work various shift, including early morning, late evenings,
weekends and holidays.
Being on our team means … You’re ready to inspire and be inspired! You’re passionate, creative and highly technical, driven to flourish in a competitive, fast-paced environment. You’re fiercely accurate, with a desire to leverage your knowledge, skills and abilities to share news stories to viewers in our local communities. You’re nimble, having the ability to pivot in an ever-changing workflow. You are a team player with a positive attitude and strong interpersonal skills. You have the ability to multi-task, meet tight deadlines and remain calm under pressure.
What we’re looking for: The Executive Producer will provide managerial oversight for editorial content across multiple platforms during an assigned shift. Includes scripts for special content, politics and breaking news. This may relate to important daily news coverage, franchise, feature, or special event coverage and documentaries.
MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Supervisory responsibilities for newsroom staff and station personnel working on newscasts with particular emphasis on Producers, Associate Producers, Reporters, Multi-media Journalists, and News Photographers, ensuring the department’s staffing and assignment needs are met
- Solve the challenges that come with dynamic news coverage
- Develop backups for critical coverage
- Oversee decisions on story lineup, video/audio elements, graphics and timing to construct a show
- Work with Producers to create the newscast product
- May fill in for Producers as needed
- Produce special programming as needed
- Perform writing, editing and recording functions as needed
- Generate story and coverage ideas on a daily and long-term basis
- Handles shift scheduling and approves paid time off when applicable
- Follow through on all assignments meeting required deadlines
- Perform other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
Skills/Abilities and Knowledge
- Ability to read, write, speak and understand English
- Proficient at inspiring staff to attain station goals of creativity, urgency and accuracy
- Ability to work effectively within a team environment and interact with all personnel within the organization
- Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Must be able to work rapidly and accurately
- Ability to anticipate situations, meet strict deadlines, organize and manage multiple priorities
- Knowledge of current events and industry trends
- Pro-active with demonstrated enthusiasm in dealing with breaking news and high-stress situations
- Ability to effectively train others
- Basic editing skills
- Must adhere to attendance guidelines
- Must be able and willing to work different shifts and be flexible with schedule changes
- Working knowledge of general office computer software, newsroom software and basic non-linear editing systems preferred
Education & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Journalism or related field preferred or comparable television work experience
- 5+ years of producing and executive producing experience in television news
- 2+ years of management experience
Our Culture: Every employee is an influencer and culture keeper. We expect respectful communication (despite pressure), openness to feedback, an eagerness to learn, and an overall positive attitude! Roles may require the following:
- Overtime may be required to meet deadlines
- Varying schedule due to, breaking news and/or daily news coverage requirements
- Provide 24×7, 365 days per year, on-call support. May entail phone or physical presence at the facility for equipment failure or other disasters. This includes, but is not limited to equipment and power failures, loss of contracted services, storms or severe weather, and schedule conflicts
NPR540 307197 307197BR
SPECTRUM